Is this Lisa’s tamest music video?

Lalisa Manoban’s music video of her latest single Moonlit Floor was released just hours ago. And it is a relatively low-key, low energy production. No street was closed for her recording, as Rockstar’s necessitated, just a room, then a theatre. And again, as with the MV of Rockstar, she performed to no audience. And in a rather intimate setting, under warm and rather hushed lighting, without a contingent of background dancers, but accompanied by what might be consider session musicians while she cavorts coquettishly with a microphone-on-a-stand. As Lisa has disappointed her fans with supposedly pre-recorded vocals in her live performances, it is not clear if the instrumentalists really provide any musical backup for her.

The music is chirpy as her singing is airy, and is build on something that is not as old as the disco vibe the song projects: Six Pence None the Richer’s Kiss Me from 1999, although, for reasons we have yet to sort, it reminded us of Stephen Duffy’s Kiss Me from 1983, but with a beat Dua Lipa would approve. She swopped the original song’s “Kiss me beneath the milky twilight/Lead me out on the moonlit floor” for “Kiss me under the Paris twilight/Kiss me out on the moonlit floor”. If that was not enough to give you clues to who she is supposedly singing about or dating now, or in love with, she added with toothsome glee, “green-eyed French boy” and “bonjour” and “that accent off your lips”. In most pop, K- or otherwise, subtlety is no virtue.

Because she asked to be kissed, she now appears as the sex kitten that she probably thinks will endear her to her scores of male fans. There are two outfits in the video (seemingly a narrative of rehearsal first, then performance) and both are aesthetically similar: sexy-sweet near-lingerie, showing a lot of legs. Both are predominantly white and are sort of lacy, and could easily be mistaken as quick buys at Melville Brandy. The first is a cold-shoulder (or double shoulder straps—one up, one down) corset-style number that could pass off as a union suit. The other, a two-piece—the top cropped and worn off-shoulder, while the bottom a sheer skirt with ruffled hem. The set could have been used by someone in a pornographic film, cast to play a maid.

There is no denying Ms Manoban’s versatility as a fashion adopter. In July, she was able to be a Rockstar, even when she was accused of plagiarism in what she wore, and then a siren in Mugler at the Global Citizen Festival, and then in LV but not looking LV for the brand’s spring/summer 2025 presentation last week. As a New Woman, she appeared fierce and edgy in assorted getups from indie brands such as Retrofête, Fancì Club, and Egon Lab. Moonlit Floor’s departure from her usual intensity when it comes to what she seems to like to wear, is now speculated to be a reflection of the emotional state that she is in. Or, to be more appropriately outfitted so that there is inducement for her “French boy” to perform in such a satisfying manner that she could ask, as she does in her new song,“How your tongue do all those tricks?”

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